The warm weather and rain we got last week melted most of the snow that was on the lake. -13C this morning, and we will only get up to -8C. I was getting used to the warm weather. Brenda and Don added some more pictures of their trip to Facebook, check em out if you...
Allison with a nice lake trout from our girls fishing weekend last weekend. Chilly again this morning, -12C feeling more like -19C.
Lindsey with her first splake she caught while fishing during their visit last weekend. Today is the chilliest day we have had in a while, -13C this morning warming up to -8C this afternoon. Snow is in the forecast so hopefully that'll help cover the glare ice on the...
Laurel with her first splake! Temperatures are starting to cool down again, we won't get above freezing today.
Brittany with a nice lake trout. The girls have gone home now. It was another warm day yesterday, but froze overnight so things are pretty icy out there. It will get up to 2C with a rain-snow mix expected today.
Allison and I with a couple lake trout from our fishing trip the other day. Yesterday we went splake fishing, and we caught 4. Expecting rain 5-10mm today. Brenda and Don added some new photos from their trip on our Facebook page if you haven't already seen them
Yesterday was a warm and very windy day for ice fishing, but we were successful in catching some nice trout. Should be another warm day today, up to 7C.
Beautiful sunrise over Manion Lake this morning. -2C. Yesterday it got up to 10C, so a lot of snow has melted. Expecting the temperatures to rise to 7C this afternoon. Last year on this date it was -29C, what a difference. We will head to Pettit to try and catch some...
The sunrise this morning, however clouds have now moved in again. It should warm up to -1C this afternoon, but the winds will pick up as well. Today Jared and I are going fishing for splake. Tomorrow I head to Thunder Bay to pick up some friends who are coming up for...
Karli with one of the trout that we caught on Saturday. Cloudy and snowy today, it's -10 but temperatures will warm up heading into the weekend.
It was a gorgeous day to be out fishing on Saturday. Today is another sunny and warm day, should get up to 2C today.
Yesterday a group of friends came up and we went ice fishing. It started out slow, but ended being a good day. In total we caught 6 trout. It should warm up to -3C today. Don and Brenda posted a few more pictures of their trip on our Facebook page.
It has warmed up overnight and snowed again. Temperatures should warm up to -1C today. Yesterday some friends were up and we tried our luck at fishing. It was bitterly cold with the wind, and we didn't even get a bite.
Another chilly morning, -26C at 8am. It is supposed to warm up to -15C so we are going to try to catch some trout today. Check out Facebook for some more pictures of Brenda and Don's trip -- yesterday they visited some wineries around Auckland.
Another fantastic selfie of Brenda and Don, so far they are enjoying their trip. -24C this morning, warming up to a balmy -18C this afternoon.
Another snowy day at Manion, expecting 2-4cm throughout the day.
Don and Brenda started the first portion of their New Zealand tour yesterday. To see more pictures visit our Facebook page. It snowed over night, and will continue to snow throughout the day. Guess I'll try my hand at plowing!
Sunny and -18C this morning. Don and Brenda arrived in Auckland yesterday morning after a long delayed flight from Vancouver due to snow. They are about 19 hours ahead of Central Standard Time (8:45am Sunday here, 3:45am Monday there) They begin their tour today.
-10 and snowy today. We should receive a few centimetres of snow. Don and Brenda will have arrived in New Zealand by now.
Happy Groundhog Day! Will we have more winter or an early spring? This was our photo op on Sunday as we basked in the winter sun. Today Don and I travel to Winnipeg and fly to Vancouver then on Friday we jet off "down under" to New Zealand. Camp will be in good hands...
This is the splake that Allison caught on Sunday. We have today left to get things crossed off our lists and to finish packing before heading off on our trip. Alex is coming home tonight so we can go over things with her. Don and Gord are heading up to Mount Lake...
Alex jigged up this splake on Sunday. Splake are a cross between a male brook trout and a female lake trout but they don't reproduce. The lake we go to is a stocked lake, they stock it every other year. They are very pretty fish and the meat is a deep orange colour...
Bill caught the first trout on Saturday, a pretty trout, a good trout for baking. We did have a delicious meal of trout on Saturday night. Yesterday we went splake fishing and caught a few. Yesterday was also the first day in a long time that we saw the sun so we were...
Deb caught the biggest trout of the day; an 8 pound beautiful black trout. We ended up with 4 trout in total, the other ones weren't as black as this one. Although it is colder and the lake has stiffened up our snow machine ride was very rough, so in many places we...
Brian with a trout he caught when fishing last weekend. Temperatures have cooled off to more seasonal so slush has stiffened up, Don reports that it's rough going. The girls are coming home this weekend for our last fishing trip before we go on our trip to New...
Don looks like he's pretty happy with this catch, but he let it get away. Don has found a new project before we go away; he's building some new outhouses for Mount Lake. Minus 4C this morning and cloudy. It seems like it's been a long time since we've seen sun....
Jared's first trout of the season. This trout was very hungry because after Jared brought it up, the trout spit out 2 other bait fish, one looked like it had just been swallowed. Too bad other trout weren't as hungry on Saturday. Don got up on the roof again and...
Brian and John hooked into a couple of beauty looking trout while fishing yesterday, Don came up empty handed. They only fished until noon as it was so wet on the ice, slush everywhere. We had fog last night and it's foggy again this morning, plus 1C. Today's forecast...
Don thought that yesterday was going to be a great day for trout fishing but it turned out it was just the opposite. We did see lots of action on the graphs but Alex and Jared were the only ones who caught a trout. Of course we didn't stay out too long and we didn't...
Don, Brian and John were trout fishing yesterday and here's Don and Brian with some of their catch, they caught a total of 3 trout. You can see it was a little sloppy on the ice. We're going to head out again today. It may be a little wet. There was heavy fog last...
I'm back from my work trip to Cross Lake Manitoba and have been greeted to a beautiful sunrise this morning. Brian L. and John B. are here for a weekend of fishing fun. Should be great weather to be outside. Today's forecast - Cloudy with 40 percent chance of drizzle...
Took this photo yesterday at our bridge. Don rode up to Pettit yesterday, said the lake was very rough and big drifts of snow at the portage. Of course there was slush and lots of that to deal with too. Cold nights will make a hard packed trail though. Today's...
Snow drifts on Manion Lake with some dog tracks as well. It has warmed up a bit overnight, minus 23C. Over the next few days it will warm up significantly. I'm off to Thunder Bay this morning, heading to Cross Lake Manitoba tomorrow for some work and will be back here...
At minus 36C, as the sun rises there's mist rising off the lake. We're in an extreme cold warning. Extreme cold warnings are issued when temperatures and/or windchill get down to minus 40C. And it feels cold outside even the dogs aren't very excited about going...
I snapped this photo of the rising moon over Manion Creek at our bridge as we were coming home from town last night. The moon certainly brighten up the night sky. It's clear this morning, minus 24C, with an orange horizon as the sun comes up and there's a good wind...
Another photo taken by Allison when she and Don broke trail to Sandbeach. This is a shot along the creek going into Sandbeach Lake. Yesterday it snowed all day, we received around 5-6 inches of snow. It was mild in the morning but as the storm began to move off the...
Allison captured this photo of a grouse soaking up the last rays of the sun New Year's Day when we were coming back from fishing. Yesterday was yet another cold day but temperatures warmed up over night. We've received about 3 inches of snow and it's minus 8C, cloudy...
Sandbeach in the winter - gorgeous. We sure are in a winter wonderland as the ground is blanketed in white and trees are heavy with snow. When the sun is shining it's spectacular. Don broke my snowshoe trail so it made for a bit easier snowshoe, even the dogs like a...
This was yesterday's sunrise as we were travelling on the Grey Trout Road on the way to Dryden to visit Allison. We saw a lot of moose tracks and on our way home we saw 2 moose in different locations. It's another cold morning, minus 25C with some clouds. On Friday...
"That's a lot of snow!" said Don when he slowed snow on Wednesday. It made snowshoeing challenging but Don has broken my trail with his snow machine so it will be a little easier now. Yesterday he rode up to Birch Lake breaking trail he says there's some slush but so...
Lynn caught this trout when we were fishing on New Year's Day. There was no one fishing yesterday as it was a clean up day. Don spent most of the day plowing snow. Everytime he'd come inside he'd say "there's a lot of snow" We're sure we received over a foot of snow,...
Well, despite still being in a winter storm warning, we decided to go fishing yesterday because we thought the trout would be hungry. There was a lot of snow. Don lead the way breaking trail and at times I couldn't see him for the snow swirling around him. And at...
Bill caught this trout while we were fishing on New Year's Day. It was such a beautiful sunny day but things changed quickly as we're now in our second day of a winter storm warning. We have received about 8 inches of snow and it's still snowing, at time you can't see...
All packed up and ready to head home after a day of ice fishing. We were on Pettit and there's about a foot of ice, not too much snow which makes it good for walking around. Bill and Lynn each caught a trout, other than that it was pretty slow. We could see fish on...
Happy New Year!! Yesterday, Don and Allison broke trail, lots of snow in the trees. Last night we had friends join us, we watched the World Junior's Hockey game, had a delicious dinner and played some Rumoli. We usually have a bonfire and although we have a large...